2022 NCAA Division III Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 16 – Saturday, March 19, 2022
- IUPUI IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- Defending Champs: Emory women (10x) & Denison men (2x) – (2019 Results)
- Live Stream
- Live Results
- Pre-selection entries
After a two-year hiatus owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA Division III Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships will take place in Indianapolis on March 16-19, 2022. On Tuesday, the NCAA released the names of the swimmers who had swum “A” or “B” standards, but they have not yet announced the invited swimmers and divers who will compete at the 2022 national meet.
The NCAA will eventually extend invitations to 579 participants (526 swimmers and 53 divers) for the Division III championships. There will be a total of 260 men (including 24 divers) and 319 women (including 29 divers) selected. Divers will compete in regional selection meets on February 25-26 and the official swimming and diving psych sheets will be available on Monday, February 28.
Swimmers may be entered in a maximum of eight events, five relays and three individual events; however, they are only permitted to compete in a maximum of seven events, of which not more than three may be individual events.
Swimmers who are selected for at least one event may enter additional “optional entry” events. Relay-only swimmers may swim in a maximum of three “optional entry” individual events for which the swimmer has achieved a “B” time. However, each school is limited to a roster of 18 student-athletes.
2022 NCAA Division III Pre-selection Entry List
I still think the D3 selection process is pretty dumb but anyway, could this be the first time since the late 70s that neither Kenyon nor Denison finish top 2 on the men’s side?
Definitely could be. Wouldn’t count either out though, especially if Kenyon gets their divers in.
Agreed, Hopkins and MIT look dangerous and Williams with their 5th years look pretty good too
The Hopkins swimmers did not taper or shave for their conference championships. This is their first taper and shave meet this year. Go Jays!!!
slightly more people per event made it this time around: 17-20 per event for men and 27-28 women. That’s better. I always thought it was sad when the cutoff was 16 and you literally had to be seeded to score points at the meet just to qualify. I know there are budgetary concerns but ideally I think they would try to have 20+ invites per event.
This isn’t the invite list… there are 16 men per event this year
There are 16-20. Because of a 4-way tie for 17th in the 50 and a tie for 17th in the 100 those go to 20 and 18, but the rest are 16-17.
I’m a little confused as to why there are times listed that exceed what I thought were the B-cuts. For example, my understanding is that the women’s 200fl b-cut is 2:05.61, but everyone from 38th and greater shows times in excess of the time standard. Can anyone tell me why that is?
I believe that if swimmers are invited for an individual event they can swim two more individual events regardless of whether they meet the B standard. Relay only swimmers can only swim their B cut individuals
You’re correct! Anyone who makes one the cut in one individual event can swim 2 other individual events regardless of their time. So you’ll often see the NESCAC swimmers who swim a 50 of stroke or the 1000 at NESCACs pick up a third event that is slower than a B cut.
Good point i was wondering not how, but why there were so many “no standard” entries…Not as much of that this year though. 27 cut line for women is wild
It’s because a swimmer who gets an invited time in one event may swim up to two other events no matter their time. For example, Nicholas Tekieli of CMS was under the invite line in the 100 back with 48.50, so he can be entered in the 200 back with a 1:53.87. Because he was invited to the meet with the 100 back time, it doesn’t matter what the 200 back time is.
However, if a swimmer is invited to the meet only as part of a relay, then they are restricted to only swim events individually if they have a ‘B’ standard from this season.
when does the selection list get made with the cut lines? The pre selection sheet doesn’t show who qualified. I am anticipating slightly deeper cut lines overall this year through each event, but don’t have the time to go through and figure out selection on my own.
It’s already out, you can find them here: https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2013/11/5/division-iii-men-s-and-women-s-swimming-and-diving.aspx
Classic NCAA to not post the right file last night and just repost the pre-cut list as the invite list.
This is going to be a very close meet on both sides.
Scoring out the entries, the men have 6 teams between 384 points and 305 points (Emory, JHU, Kenyon, MIT, Williams, and Denison, in that order). Women have four between 404 and 345 (Kenyon, Emory, Williams, and Denison).
This doesn’t account for diving and entry caps, but it looks like Emory is the only team that could run into entry limits on both sides.
Edit: official psych sheet up now, gotta update my spreadsheet lol
No major changes once updated.
Men’s side:
Emory 378
Johns Hopkins 335
Kenyon 315.5
MIT 314.5
Williams 310
Denison 306
Women’s side:
Kenyon 404
Emory 381
Williams 354
Denison 345.5
unbelievable. Closest pack in NCAA history? 6 teams within 75 points in psych sheets? Gonna be a great meet to watch
Not sure what this year looks like but historically Denison and MIT have been very strong with Diving which could make it even closer.
Of the top 6 teams on the men’s side, here’s how many divers qualified for regionals:
Emory: 2
JHU: 0
Kenyon: 3
MIT: 1
Williams: 1
Denison: 3
Emory already has 18 swimmers, so if any of their divers make it they’ll have to cut someone. It seems like Kenyon and Denison have the most upshot with diving, and Kenyon outscored Denison at their conference meet in diving.
Williams may only have one but he’s really good.
Add in Kenyon’s likely diving points and this makes things very interesting!
About how many people make it in each event?
Women’s events hover around 20 and Men’s is typically around 16. Then individually qualified swimmers in any events they chose (regardless of times) and relay qualified swimmers with B-cuts will fill out the rest of the events.
27-28 women made it in each event this year. This is not normal though. It depends every year on how close they were to the invite limit once they had invited 20 individuals and relays.
The real student-athletes